What do you think about the upcoming movie called Warm Bodies, and has anyone read the novel?
I 've seen these trailers promoting the movie several times before, and it has two components that I'm already interested in: One being a zombie apocalypse. Who doesn't love a good old end-of-the-world with the dead risen kind of zombie apocalypse? Lawless, fast-paced, and awesome are one of the few words I can think of to describe that kind of world.
Another thing that I kind of like about this movie? It would be the fact that I have never heard of a zombie romance centered movie before. I'm a bit on the fence about this one, though the movie Warm Bodies seems to have an awesome combination of romance, action, adventure, jump-scares of mutated baddies, comedy, lovable characters and zombie-killing. Sure, I know that there's books about fluffy zombie romance - and those were off-putting to me before. I had scoffed at the idea. It was ridiculous. It made me lose hope for any supernatural species ever invented of being spared from the supernatural romance YA genre.
Dear God, I thought, dropping to my knees. They've finally done it. They crossed the threshold of werewolves, vampires, faeries, devils, ghosts, and angels, and have finally done the impossible - make romance novels for ZOMBIES! How?! Why? Zombies are bloodthirsty, flesh-rendering, mindless killers that, when in swarms, can send the most hardened of men whimpering! They're dead! D-E-A-D. No pulse, no signs of vitals, their skin is literally rotting from their bones! WHY DID THE AUTHORS OF YA DO THIS TO ME!?
Commence inner turmoil and spasm-induced thrashing.
But I have confidence that Warm Bodies can pull off a good rating.
So, back to the first question: what do you think about Warm Bodies' trailers and novel? Is it worth watching, or would you write it off as preposterous? Would this cause a new torrent of zombie romance novels on a market to overthrow dystopian genre novels in YA?
I 've seen these trailers promoting the movie several times before, and it has two components that I'm already interested in: One being a zombie apocalypse. Who doesn't love a good old end-of-the-world with the dead risen kind of zombie apocalypse? Lawless, fast-paced, and awesome are one of the few words I can think of to describe that kind of world.
Another thing that I kind of like about this movie? It would be the fact that I have never heard of a zombie romance centered movie before. I'm a bit on the fence about this one, though the movie Warm Bodies seems to have an awesome combination of romance, action, adventure, jump-scares of mutated baddies, comedy, lovable characters and zombie-killing. Sure, I know that there's books about fluffy zombie romance - and those were off-putting to me before. I had scoffed at the idea. It was ridiculous. It made me lose hope for any supernatural species ever invented of being spared from the supernatural romance YA genre.
Dear God, I thought, dropping to my knees. They've finally done it. They crossed the threshold of werewolves, vampires, faeries, devils, ghosts, and angels, and have finally done the impossible - make romance novels for ZOMBIES! How?! Why? Zombies are bloodthirsty, flesh-rendering, mindless killers that, when in swarms, can send the most hardened of men whimpering! They're dead! D-E-A-D. No pulse, no signs of vitals, their skin is literally rotting from their bones! WHY DID THE AUTHORS OF YA DO THIS TO ME!?
Commence inner turmoil and spasm-induced thrashing.
But I have confidence that Warm Bodies can pull off a good rating.
So, back to the first question: what do you think about Warm Bodies' trailers and novel? Is it worth watching, or would you write it off as preposterous? Would this cause a new torrent of zombie romance novels on a market to overthrow dystopian genre novels in YA?
January 26th, 2013 at 05:46am